Google expected to keep its key operations going in PRC - report.

Text of report by Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post website on 18 March

Internet search giant Google, despite its much publicised threat to exit China, will probably retain key business operations in the country when its domestic website is shut down, mainland internet analysts say.

That development may help reassure what appears to be an anxious group of online advertising resellers, who on Monday [15 March] asked Google for compensation for mounting losses they claim to have incurred since the company sought to defy Chinese censorship rules after a major online security breach.

"We don't believe Google will conduct a 100 per cent pull-out of …